This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users. In response, the service provider may be provided with the requested presence information based on whether that service provider has permissions to receive the requested presence information.
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3. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence information comprises a probability of at least one of: (i) the user being at the location; or (ii) the user being available to receive the second service.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein initiating the second service comprises at least one of: (i) advertising availability of the user to an additional user; (ii) initiating a delivery to the user; (iii) sending a message to a user device associated with the user; (iv) causing a phone call to be place to the user; (v) initiating a video conference with the user; (vi) sending an advertisement to the user; (vii) offering a product or service for sale to the user; or (viii) offering an incentive to purchase a product or service to the user.
7. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising receiving an indication that the system is authorized to receive the presence information associated with the user profile.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising receiving, from the one or more computing devices and after a period of time, additional presence information, the additional presence information indicating that the user is unavailable to receive the first service.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein initiating the second service comprises at least one of: (i) advertising availability of the user to an additional user; (ii) initiating a delivery to the user; (iii) sending a message to a user device associated with the user; (iv) causing a phone call to be placed to the user; (v) initiating a video conference with the user; (vi) sending an advertisement to the user; (vii) offering a product or service for sale to the user; or (viii) offering an incentive to purchase a product or service to the user.
18. The system of claim 16, the operations further comprising determining a type of presence information associated with the first presence information, and wherein determining that the second criteria is not satisfied by the first presence information is based at least in part on the type of presence information.
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